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Adding that it had been 60 years since gluten was shown to cause coeliac disease, he said: 'The holy grail in coeliac disease research has been to identify the toxic peptide components of gluten; and that's what we've done.'

Melbourne biotech company Nexpep has created a jab to desensitise people with coeliac disease to gluten.

Up to one in 100 Britons suffers from the disease. Symptoms include diarrhoea and cramps and it can lead to malnutrition and osteoporosis.